IR 05000213/1988012

Discusses Safeguards Insp Rept 50-213/88-12 on 880517-0601 & Forwards Notice of Violation

ML20207D050
Person / Time
Site:	Haddam Neck File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	08/03/1988
From:	Kane W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Mroczka E CONNECTICUT YANKEE ATOMIC POWER CO.
Shared Package
ML20207D053	List: IR 05000213/1988012 ML20207D063
References
EA-88-175, NUDOCS 8808150231
Download: ML20207D050 (4)

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Docket No. 50-213 License No. DPR-61 EA 88-175 Connecticut Yankea Atomic Power Company ATTN: Mr. E. J. Mroczka Senior Vice President - Nuclear Engineering and Operations Group P. O. Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06141 Gentlemen:

Subject: NOTICE OF VIOLATION (Inspection No. 50-213/88-12)

This letter refers to the special safeguards inspection conducted on May 17-20 and May 26 - June 1,1988 at the 'iaddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to review the circumstances associated with two examples of an apparent violation of the NRC-app, oved physical securits plan at Haddam Nec The inspection report was sent to ,vou on June 24, 1988. Both examples, which involved degradations of vital area (VA) barriers, were identified by your staff. On July 6,1988, an enforcement conference was conducted with Mr. W. Romberg and other members of your staff to discuss both examples, their causes, as well as your corrective action The violation, which is described in the enclosed Notice of Violation, involved:

(1) an unlocked and unmonitored opening in a temporary extension of a vital area barrier, for approximately 46 minutes during the recent outage in May 1988; and (2) a 13.5 in. by 8 in. opening in another vital area barrier, for app oxin;ately two days in May 1985. In each case, until the degradations were identified by security personnel, compensatory measures were not take In the first case, a security shift. supervisor performed a walkdown of the temporary extension prior to the vital area barrier being extended, without recognizing the unlocked door in the barrier extension. The individual did not have a procedure specifying the openings in the barrier extension which are required to be verified as secured during the walkdown. In the second case, the hole in the vital area barrier was created by construction persenn91 as part of a plant modification. However, :ecurity personnel were not contacted as required prior to implementation of this portion of the modification. These events demonstrate the importance of adequate procedures for performing activities, and adequate coordination with the security department whenever changes are made at the facilit Both of these barrier degradations involved the loss of two security elements, namely, barrier and monitoring. Although violations involving the loss of two security elements would normally be classified at Severity level III in accordance with Section C.1 of Supplement III of the "General Statement of Policy and Procecore for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR 2, Appendix C (Enforcement Policy) (1988), the violation has been classified at Severity gI 0FFICIAL RECORD COPY PROP L4 HN - 0003. ..

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The enclosed Notice of Violation contains details of your security program that .

have been determined to be exempt from publ". disclosure in accordance with 10 i CFR 73.21 (Safeguards Information). Therefore, those portions will not be placed in the NRC Public Document Room and will receive limited distributio {

This letter and the remaining portions of the inspection report will be placed i in the Public Document Room in accordance with 2.790(a).

l The response directed by this letter and the enclosed Notice is not subject to 1 the clearance procedures of the Office of Management and Budget as required by I the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-51 i

Sincerely, Original Signed By:

William F. Kane Division of Reactor Projects Enclosurc: Notice of Violation (contains Safeguards Information (SGI))

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